• Resolved robbarron1

    (@robbarron1)


    Hi.

    I’m a bit of WordPress noob so please bear with me…

    I’ve set up and self-hosted my site https://transenduro.co.uk/transpyrenduro/

    It’s up and running and I’m able to create posts and pages absolutely fine. Now I want to add a new user so my friend can also contribute to the site. This is where my problem lies – every time I attempt to add him, I get “the requested user does not exist”. My only option is to add the new user as an existing user on the network and I’m sure this is where the problem is. I don’t have the option on my dashboard to add a new user and the associated form, just the option to add an existing user…which doesn’t seem to work. In fact, having looked through several support threads, there are several options that appear to be absent from my dashboard.

    I don’t (as far as I know) have any plugins running, I think it’s the standard installation of Twenty Eleven. I had problems getting the iPhone WP app to talk to the site and it turned out to be my host (NamesCo) blocking certain php files so I’m wondering if that’s it?

    I’ve only got one WP site running on the domain, but I have enabled multisite just to be on the safe side. In fact when I looked at the php it was already enabled.

    I started following the Create a Network instructions, and only got as far as completing step 2! After that, step 3 doesn’t seem to work as I can’t see Network Setup in my Dashboard.

    Confused!

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  • Thread Starter robbarron1

    (@robbarron1)

    OK. Done that.

    Cant see any change in my dashboard to tell me multisite has gone away – because it never enabled in the first place!

    So… I still cant add a new user. That being my original problem.

    Once again, just to be as clear as I think it’s possible to be, I want to add a new user to my one existing site. I can’t do that. I ONLY have the option in my dashboard to add an existing user.

    The question, my only question is how do I add a new user?!

    That’s it.

    Using Phpmyadmin (or another MySQL management tool), first backup your database. Then navigate to your wp_usermeta table and locate the meta_key called “wp_capabilities” for your user_id. Check that the meta-value for this record is:

    a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    robbarron1 – The screen your seeing ONLY EXISTS FOR MULTISITE.

    I’m not kidding. See how it says ‘On this network’? That means you’ve STILL got Multisite installed.

    Are you 1000% sure you’re editing the right wp-config.php file here?

    Thread Starter robbarron1

    (@robbarron1)

    esmi – i think that part is a little beyond me, possibly why the attempt to go multisite (ill-advised or not) didn’t happen.

    ipstenu – I’ve only got one wp-config as far as I know… it’s a nice sunny day, maybe a beer will clarify matters!

    https://www.transenduro.co.uk/pics/ftp.jpg

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Can you paste the FULL content of your wp-config.php on pastebin.com? You’ve got to be missing something, OR your server’s overriding it.

    (Make sure you edit out all your user names, password and the Salts and Keys!)

    Thread Starter robbarron1

    (@robbarron1)

    Okely Dokely… I’d be the first to admit that it’s more than likely I’m missing something! But, as I said initially, I wouldn’t be suprised if NamesCo, mein host, are blocking something as I had to manually edit the xmlrpc to allow my iphone to logon to the WP app (see here)

    Anyway… wp-config.php – https://pastebin.com/titCfrJA

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    You did miss something.

    You remember the part where I tossed up a link to wpmututorials and said to follow those steps to remove Multisite?

    define('MULTISITE', true);
    define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true);
    $base = '/transpyrenduro/';
    define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'transenduro.co.uk' );
    define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/transpyrenduro/' );
    define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
    define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );

    That is all Multisite.

    Kill it.

    Thread Starter robbarron1

    (@robbarron1)

    Genius, genius, genius.

    Thank you! That, madam, has solved the problem in one fell swoop.

    I swear, there’s options on the dashboard that I have NEVER seen before, so I guess that multisite gumf has been there all along somehow.

    Brilliant. Thanks for your patience…your work here is done! :o)

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    *salute* Happy to help ??

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